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In reply to the discussion: I first uttered the words "We're fucked" on DU in 2006. [View all]GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)23. We may have been fucked for much longer than that.
It all depends on how you look at human development. I can make a case for 1970, 1950, 1880, 8,000 BCE or right back to the harnessing of fire. But putting a date to it is pretty much irrelevant at this point. We are where we are.
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Blowing a lot of people up and exposing them to radiation will solve this problem?
JDPriestly
Apr 2016
#27
the best line in the movie and the first thing I thought of when I saw the OP -
ish of the hammer
Apr 2016
#13
My middle son had an occasion to quote that line to me (while I was doing something stupid)
ish of the hammer
Apr 2016
#24
As someone else noted (in a slightly different context), there is a serious cascade effect here too.
Nihil
Apr 2016
#42
About 5% of children younger than 5 yrs old have epilepsy - about one in every 20 children under 5.
proverbialwisdom
Apr 2016
#32